The players' strike that killed the World Series was during the 1994 season.
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The Major League Baseball strike occurred in 1994. It began on August 12 and lasted until the end of the season, resulting in the cancellation of the World Series for the first time since 1904.
Aroldis Chapman holds the record for the fastest pitch ever recorded in Major League Baseball history, throwing a 105.1 mph pitch in 2010.
Meteors strike the Earth every day, by the thousands. Mostly they are tiny; the size of a grain of rice, perhaps. Probably only a few dozen a day are the size of a baseball. Every few weeks, something bigger hits, but we rarely know anything about it ahead of time. As of May 9, 2009, there are no known meteors that are going to hit the Earth.
No batter has achieved a batting average over 400 in a four-year period in Major League Baseball history. The last player to bat over 400 for a full season was Ted Williams in 1941 with a .406 average.
About 3000 brush fires per year are started by lightning strikes.
Last year. There was a major drought through out the west and southwest.